Hollyoaks legend Danny Mac's life away from screen - from famous wife to Strictly confession

As Hollyoaks icon Mark 'Dodger' Savage makes a daze instrumentality to the Channel 4 soap, the Mirror takes a look astatine histrion Danny Mac's beingness distant from the fictional Chester suburb

It's been astir 10 years since Hollyoaks fans said goodbye to Mark 'Dodger' Savage - the cheekiest chappy successful Chester with an oculus for the ladies. Now Dodger is acceptable to marque a astonishment instrumentality to the village, with his instrumentality scenes owed to aerial aboriginal successful the caller year.

Played by Bromley-born actor Danny Mac, Dodger kept viewers connected their toes with his analyzable emotion life, which saw him furniture a fig of the soap's fieriest women. He was besides astatine the bosom of immoderate genuinely chaotic twists and turns, including inadvertently fathering a kid with his estranged duplicate sister Sienna Blake (Anna Passey).

The past clip fans saw Dodger was mode backmost successful 2015 erstwhile helium courageously took the blasted aft girl Nico Blake (Persephone Swales-Dawson) murdered his villainous member Will Savage (James Atherton) successful a hopeless enactment of self-defence.

As Dodger prepares to marque his return, determination looks to beryllium plentifulness much to travel from the natural-born charmer. And his off-air counterpart Danny has besides been beauteous busy...

Famous wife

Danny is joined to chap Hollyoaks prima Carley Stenson, however, the brace ne'er really worked together, with Carley having near the twelvemonth earlier Danny joined. Instead, Danny archetypal met Carley erstwhile she was starring arsenic the iconic Elle Woods successful Legally Blonde: The Musical successful 2011.

Six years later, the mates tied the knot successful an intimate woodland wedding, with Danny describing the societal time arsenic 'perfect' during a 2017 interrogation connected Lorraine. Danny told Lorraine: "It was the cleanable day. It truly could not person been better, it was fantastic weather and it was each outside. We had a fantastic time, it could not person gone better."

In different interrogation with Hello! mag astatine the time, Danny recalled the infinitesimal helium saw his bride walking towards him. He remembered: "Carley looked genuinely sensational and truthful happy. It was specified a beauteous infinitesimal that I'll ne'er forget. I really enactment my manus retired to archer her to dilatory down arsenic it was each going excessively rapidly and I wanted to cherish it. Carley thought I waved and truthful she waved back."

The lovebirds person since gone connected to invited girl Skye Bella successful June 2021, and, successful June of this year, they introduced their 2nd kid to the world - a small lad named Beauie Mac. Posting an adorable photograph of themselves leaving the infirmary with Beauie via Instagram Stories, Danny wrote: "Welcome to the world, son… good done Mummy. Thank you!"

Musical theatre endeavours

Danny has been progressive successful a fig of absorbing projects, including a drawstring of philharmonic theatre productions. He was nominated for 'Best Actor' astatine the WhatsOnStage Awards for the portion of Joe Gillis successful Andrew Lloyd Webber's touring accumulation of Sunset Boulevard, which helium played from September 2017 to April 2018.

Musical theatre buffs whitethorn besides recognise Danny from his stint arsenic Edward successful the 2020 London premiere of Pretty Woman: The Musical, and Nino successful the philharmonic adaptation of the whimsical French movie Amélie.

Strictly confession

Danny proved himself to beryllium a talented dancer successful the 2016 bid of Strictly Come Dancing, which saw him partnered with Oti Mabuse. The brace shone successful the ballroom, but yet missed retired connected the glitterball trophy, coming successful 2nd spot down champions Ore Oduba and Joanne Clifton.

Rather than lament missing retired connected a victory, Danny aboriginal remarked that helium had been pleased not to triumph - fearing it would harm his career. Speaking with The Sun successful 2017, Danny admitted: "I ever accidental I didn't lose, Ore won. And Oti and I won connected the Strictly tour, truthful I got a mentation of the trophy.

"My mum has it connected her eating table, truthful each clip I spell location I spot it successful each its glory. I really deliberation it was astir apt champion for my vocation that I didn’t win. I mean, Ore volition ne'er beryllium capable to get distant from the Strictly victor thing, adjacent if it's been the making of him."

Excitement up of long-awaited return

A root advised The Sun that Dodger's instrumentality volition beryllium a melodramatic one, with an eventful household reunion connected the cards. This insider shared: "Bosses are truly keen to solidify the clans successful the colony and bringing Dodger backmost and reuniting him with his sisters and dada and precise unsafe grandma is the cherry connected apical for them.

"Danny's truly excited to beryllium backmost filming and backmost connected the show. It's a truly breathtaking clip nether Hannah (producer Hannah Cheers) and it was the cleanable clip to return."

Meanwhile, Digital Spy reports that thespian Danny is 'thrilled' to beryllium backmost successful the action-packed suburb, wherever determination looks to beryllium much surprises successful store. Danny divulged: "After a decennary away, I'm thrilled to beryllium returning and reuniting with my unthinkable co-stars, aged friends and a quality precise adjacent to my heart.

"Dodger escaped, leaving a large woody behind. I've ever wondered whether helium could instrumentality and who helium mightiness person go successful the 10 years since helium ran away. Now that he's back, there's a batch to uncover, but 1 mode oregon another, we volition yet find out."

You tin drawback Hollyoaks connected Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays connected Channel 4 astatine 7pm.

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